Senior Project Controls: Quantity & Progress Leader

Jacobs; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Senior Quantity and Progress Tracking Project Controls Professional for a site-based assignment with potential future on-site work across the U.S. The role focuses on accurate progress tracking, quantities installed reporting, and collaboration with construction teams and vendors.

You will champion Jacobs' TogetherBeyond culture, ensuring inclusion and belonging while delivering robust project controls, data analysis, and reporting using Power BI and related tools.

Qualifications

• Requires 10+ years of experience in project controls, construction progress tracking, quantity surveying, cost controls or related fields.
• Experience tracking and reporting installed quantities and physical progress on large industrial, infrastructure, manufacturing, energy, or mission-critical projects.
• Knowledge of earned value management (EVM) principles and progress measurement methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update the project quantity database.
• Track quantity growth, scope changes, and quantity trends throughout the project lifecycle.
• Establish and maintain progress measurement procedures, rules, and weighting methodologies.
• Define measurable progress quantities and percent-complete criteria for Construction.
• Collect, validate, and track installed quantities to measure actual project progress.
• Review and verify contractor-reported progress against field conditions and measurable quantities.
• Conduct or support field walkdowns to validate progress and installed work.
• Calculate earned quantities, earned progress, and percent complete for reporting purposes.
• Monitor and report planned vs. actual quantities, progress performance, and productivity trends.
• Track completed quantities against contractor invoices and support validation of progress payments.
• Maintain progress reporting tools, databases, Power BI dashboards, and reporting systems.
• Experience tracking and reporting installed quantities and physical progress on large industrial, infrastructure, manufacturing, energy, or mission-critical projects.

Skills

Project controls

Quantity surveying

Cost controls

Scheduling

Earned value management

Data analysis

Progress tracking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Project Controls, Quantity Surveying, or related field

Tools

Oracle

EcoSys

Unifier

Synchro

Power BI

Job description

Jacobs is seeking a Senior Quantity and Progress Tracking Project Controls Professional for a site-based assignment with potential future on-site work across the U.S. The role focuses on accurate progress tracking, quantities installed reporting, and collaboration with construction teams and vendors.

You will champion Jacobs' TogetherBeyond culture, ensuring inclusion and belonging while delivering robust project controls, data analysis, and reporting using Power BI and related tools.